The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-01

future of this property.
H. M. Bronson, general passenger agent of
the l., B. & W., ana H. c. Diehl, general freight
agent. leave for New York this evening to at
tend the meetings to be held there this week.
The Rolling-mi,l Company it is stated. could
sell out their stock OF blooms at profit OF fully
$l3, 900 on their cost to them Their orders
were placed before the sharp advance in blooms
and rails
The Decline people say that with the taking
effect of the Spring timetable they will have the
best train service and as fine passenger equip
ments on their through trains as are run in this
country, East or West
Mr. Harris, of Providence, who is locomotive
builder, has introduced bill in the Rhode ISL
and Legislature providing that there shall be
no fire passenger train, except in the loco
| motive. and no form of oil used for lighting.
J. W. Carpenter. president of the American
Electric Headlight Company, was in the city
yesterday. He states that they are about estab-
fishing a standard plant. and within sixty days
will be able to turn out their improved headlight
by the hundreds.
Waiter Nichols, who. to-day, takes the posi-
| ton of assistant general passenger agent of the
Bee-line, with headquarters at st. Louis, left
last evening for that point. after some ten years
| residence in Indianapolis. lie will be missed by
| his numerous friends.
President Willard, of the Indianapolis car
| works, yesterday declined to bid on 1000 box
cars for the Toledo. ST. Louis & Kansas City
| road, so crowdsd are the works now with orders
| OF the 600 contracted for by the Bee-line, last
week, the Indianapolis car works were awarded
| 200
| The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
! have arranged for a grand ball on the evening Of
the 18th of this month. large number of
| members of lodges at other railroad points, it is
expected, will be in attendance therefore. the
| brotherhood secured Tomlinson Hail. Some
| 1000 invitations have been sent out
| line man, it is stated, was so eager to Sc
cure business yesterday that he offered at least
twenty cents per 100 pound rate grain to the
seaboard and after having reached that figure
the shipper smiled on him and said that it would
| pay him better to ship his grain south, even
after the sharp cut offered in the eastern rate
AS there is an impression that the Baltimore
| & Ohio Express comlngin here means lower ex-
press rates, it is proper to state that D. 7.
| Bacon, the general agent has positive instruc-
both the B. & O. and the Erie express compa
MES have been behaving very handsomely of
late.
The annual meeting of the c., c., c. & f. for
directors, will be held in Cleveland to-day.
Probably it will be some days before it will be
| known who is to be the president of the COM
pany. The opinion prevails that it will be one
| of the Vanderbilts, and that Fl. H. Poppleton,
who it is understood is to be elected vice presi
dent. Will do the work.
"With the Amalgamated Association and the
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at issue
with them the Boston Transcript says. 'the
|
of being really representative of the working
men. Either one of these organizations comes
very near to exercising as much influence as the
knights have yet, as corporate whole, been
| able to WELD
The feeling prevails among business men that
the new Indianapolis rail rolling mill commences
| operations at a very opportune time, these
| are piping times, AS the saying 49, IN the iron
trade through the West, the East, the North
and the South. There is a demand for every
thing which iron enters into, from a shingle-nail
to locomotive, and it promises to be great
year for ali VINO are interested in iron produc-
ton and manufactures.
president Corbin's ambition does not stop, -
says the Philadelphia Times. "at trifes; he is
credited with determination to force the Bal
tlmore & Ohio to cooperate with the Reading
and Jersey Central to the extent of contributing
it's New York business to them on favorable
terms move in this direction is said to have
been made by the astute Reading chief in the
shape of proposition to President Garrett, but
the Baltimore 6 Ohio maenate did not grasp at
the offer, as it was not to his liking"
The spacious depot of the Pennsylvania lines
at Philadelphia, built ten years ago, is already
too limited to accommodate their business, and
the company will this season enlarge the station
at Broad street to accommodate the increased
traffic Better facilities are nscessitated prin-
cipally by the business of the Phiadal phia, Will
mington & Baltimore lines now concentrated at
that point The occupants of stores and other
properties on Market street, west Of Fifteenth,
Wnlcn are owned Oy the company, nave been
notified to vacate by May l. when their leases
expire. 1t is feared that the Union Railway
Company is erecting at this point depot which.
ten years hence, will but little better accom-
| modate the business than the present struct-
ure accommodates the present volume of bust
ness. Certainly not it trave increases over In
dianaDos roads as rapidly 70. ten years to come
as it has in the ten years past
In the year 1853 Mr. Cathcart was in charge
| of the equipments Of the Madison g. Indian
| apolis road and he planned 8 locomotive to haul
the trains up the Madison Eil q cog-wheel be
ing used to keep the locomotive from slipping
! back. He made known his idea Of a locomotive
for this special service, and, after some per
suasion, induced VIM. Jackson, treasurer of the
matter and he laid 1t before the board OF
directors, and they gave Mr.. jackson authority
to go to Philadelphia and contract with the
. Baldwin locomotive works, which were ther
small affairs to build it. Mr. jackson tool
T. Mr. Cathcart with him, who explained to thu
Baldwin manager what he wanted Mr.. Bald
| win senior laughed at the idea owing to the ex
it would cost 81, 900 and weigh fifteen thousant
I. | pounds. He said it would ruin them to under
take so big job. but finally ne told Mr. Jack
) son that if he would guarantee the work
/ against loss he would undertake the job, which
I Mr.. jackson did, and in about four months tn
Q engine was built, shipped by water from Phia
= deiphia to New Orleans then by boat up tn
; river to Madison. The engine was put at wor
l. at once, performed admirably, and it was ru
| for years on the hill with trifing expense in tn
u way of repairs. The growth Of this locomotive
works is aptly illustrated in the above statement
tives per day the year round ard weighing si
to eight times as much did this one Of tn
J. pioneer locomotives in Indiana.